Hadidog says the UK F-35 Jet Fleet Jet Dosage by delay and employee deficiency

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Britain’s General spending control authority warned of “palaces” in the country’s F-35 fighter program, with delays and low pilot flights and employee shortages undermining the fleet effectiveness.

The fleet, which is 37 years old last year, met a third of the Ministry of Defense’s goal to perform all the required tasks, National Audit Office He said on Friday.

He pointed out that plans to supply the plane with important weapons, including the missiles developed in the United Kingdom, have been returned until the thirties of the twentieth century.

“The common deficiencies of the global aircraft and United Kingdom program F-35 Stealth Fighter-including delay, low availability of expected, infrastructure gaps and employee deficiency-undermine the ability of the armed forces warriors,” according to Watchdog.

The F-35, which was created by Lockheed Martin, is a developed fighter in the world, the only advanced range in the world.

The NAO report comes at a sensitive time for the government, which is under pressure to prepare its armed forces for modern war while strengthening industrial flexibility in the United Kingdom.

The dreadful evaluation of war fighting the F-35 in the UK also revealed that MD had already spent 11 billion pounds on the program-more than expected in 2013.

NAO has warned of costs over the life of the program, including non-equipment expenses such as employees and infrastructure, which could reach 71 billion pounds-greatly exceeds the general expectations of the administration of 18.76 billion pounds.

Gareth Davis, President of Nao, said the program provides “greatly improved capacity and great economic benefits for the United Kingdom.”

“But the advantages of the ability are not fully achieved due to delay, infrastructure gaps and employee deficiency,” he added.

The Ministry of Defense said that the program “continues to work within its approved budget, and the UK will have two full secrets of F-35 fighter planes ready for publication by the end of this year.”

The UK has 38 F-35 Fighter aircraft operating outside the two aircraft companies in the Royal Navy, although only 37 are currently active. They were crossed by one plane at an airport in southern India due to mechanical issues.

Britain has committed to the purchase of 138 F-35s in total, including recently The declared purchase process From 12 F-35A aircraft are able to carry nuclear bombs.

By early commitment to the United States -led program, the UK has benefited industrially and is the only only partner for the class, according to NAO. British companies manufacture at least 15 percent at the value of all F-35s, which led to 22 billion pounds of contracts for local manufacturers.

But the delays, also, also due to problems in the global program that was fire in the United States due to its escalating costs, means that the Ministry of Defense expects to be able to declare the full operational capacity of the aircraft at the end of 2025 – two years after the plan.

Douglas Barry, his first military aviation colleague at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the report “is not made for a special reassuring reading.”

“The prolonged delays in combining UK’s major weapons on the plane, this is the extended air missile, and the 3 -to -long spear spear, negatively affects the operational effectiveness of the UK.”

Defense officials said that the cost of the International Energy Agency cost was based on various various assumptions.

They said that the Ministry of Defense estimates for the full life costs of the program are only related to the associated equipment and costs of support. Meanwhile, the NAO account depends on the equipment, support costs, assumption of employees, fuel, and related infrastructure costs that are related to F-35.